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Typhoon Haiyan Philippines - Executive brief 30 April 2014

FAO has assisted nearly 44 000 affected families to plant rice after the Typhoon Haiyan in time for the December/January planting season, filling the gap in rice seed requirements identified by the Government for Regions VI and VIII in the Philippines. By June, this will yield enough rice to feed some 800 000 people for a year, at an estimated market value of USD 84 million.

FAO has received USD 34.7 million in funding, which will enable a wide range of support to affected families, including small-scale rice, corn, coconut and upland farmers, fishers and smallholder livestock and poultry producers.

Contributors include: CERF, ECHO, FAO and the Governments of Belgium, Canada, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.